Topic on Talk:Content translation

Topic from a year ago that came back up due to a link fix.

I'd like to translate a Chinese wiki entry into English. When I use the content translator tool, on the top of the page it warns me that "Translate page - Note: This utility is currently restricted to extended confirmed editors on the English Wikipedia, see WP:CXT for more information."

I am not an extended confirmed editor on the English wikipedia; I got an account only a week ago. However, it seems that I am able to use the translation tool in the same way when I used it to translate an English wiki entry to Chinese a couple days ago, except that the machine translation is turned off, but my understanding is that machine translation is turned off for everybody. So what does that warning on the top of the page mean? Would I be unable to submit my translation once it's done?

The message means, You cant publish the translation.

Opps. Thanks for clarifying, Hans Hasse. A long way to go before I get to translate a Chinese page into English, it seems =(

You need 500 edits in the EN-WP.

@SomeNeutrinos You can translated into English, but you have to first publish to a draft by clicking the gear icon. After the article is good, you can move it to the article space.

Huh, I am getting mixed responses here, but it seems like you work at Wiki, so I am gonna believe you & give it a go, perhaps with a shorter entry than the one I planned to translate at the beginning. Thanks! Will update the post when I complete my first Chinese to English translation.